Introducing George Michael Evica's "A Certain Arrogance"

[Paul Rigby]

Thanks, Paul.

Please do continue your review when time permits.

FYI, I'm working with George Michael's estate and a major publisher to bring out an updated version of ACA in 2009.

Do take a look at the figures targeted by the CIA's OSF - reformists, almost to a man, with Beria as their main patron. The Berlin "Uprising" represented a classic confluence of interest, with East Germany party, Red Army and the Agency united in the desire to destroy economic reform and political liberalization, not merely in Russian-controlled Germany, but throughout eastern Europe, each for their own complex of self-interested reasons. The dead give-away, from the point of exposing the hypocrisy and deceit of the East German party establishment, was the subsequent sustained campaign to point the finger at CIC, not the Agency.

Once one sees clearly what it was that Beria was attempting, we see immediately that Gorbachev's campaign of reform did not arise ex nihilo, but was firmly rooted within the divisions within the Soviet elite of the late 1940s and early 1950s. Gorby got the boot, by the way, not for rushing through reform, but for resisting it: He wanted to preserve the Union. The ascendant Chekists did not.

Paul